YOUNGEST CEO IS BACK IN BANGALORE

Bangalore is home to many achievers, one of them is Suhas Gopinath, the world’s youngest CEO who will be shifting his office headquarters from California to his home city Bangalore after Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy assured him office space within a week.

Speaking to reporters after meeting the Chief Minister, 19-year-old Suhas said that he had to set up his firm in US in the year 2000 as it was not possible to float a company in India before one attained the age of 18.The young CEO informed that he would attend college in the morning and concentrate on his company affairs by night, after shifting to Bangalore.

His firm Global Inc has branches in 13 countries and has already provided employment to 600 persons. It plans to recruit another 150 people for the Bangalore office. Global Inc has bagged the contract for interlinking 947 Kendriya Vidyalaya from the Union Human Resource Development ministry.

Global Inc has also been allotted office space in Karachi by the Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. But his company website has been hacked and he has been receiving threatening emails from certain groups in Pakistan, who do not want him to setup a branch there. But this does not seem to deter Suhas and his company who, in a bid to remove apprehensions will organize a conference of young leaders in Bangalore from September 1to 3 in which 200 young leaders- 100 each from India and Pakistan will take part. The Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has agreed to deliver his address through a video- conference. He plans to request Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the proposed conference.

In the meanwhile, Suhas has been invited by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to setup an entrepreneurial cell in his country to promote entrepreneurial skills among prospective investors of his company. Suhas will be meeting Blair on July 16 on this regard.

Praising the achievements of Suhas Gopinath, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy described him as a role model for the youth.